The Watch - Homeland Defense

The Skyraider II soon will arrive in support of U.S. Air Force Special Operations, providing an update to a classic close-ground support and surveillance model that saw service in the Korean and Vietnam wars. U.S. AIR FORCE THE WATCH STAFF An updated version of a Vietnam-era surveillance and precision strike warplane could be deployed to the…

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Valiant partcipated in one of six interdictions in the Caribbean Sea that netted more than $141 million of cocaine in February 2025.…

U.S. Soldiers assigned to Task Force Sentinel survey the southern border wall in a UH-72A Lakota at Dona Ana, New Mexico, on February 22, 2025. U.S. Northern…

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely is moored at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown in Virginia on March 15 before getting underway for a…

U.S. Navy Lt. Maria Jarrett has the temperature of her hands assessed using a frost-bite sensor after below zero medical procedures on mannequins. LANCE CPL.…

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces conducted an annual winter training exercise, Arctic Bison, in the Yukon Territories in February 2025. CANADIAN ARMED…

People watch as the Ground-based Midcourse Defense element of the United States ballistic missile defense system launches during a flight test from Vandenberg…

A United States federal judge sentenced Rubén Oseguera, known as El Menchito, to life in prison in March 2025. He is the son of fugitive Jalisco New Generation…

Canada is likely to play a role in the construction and deployment of the U.S. Golden Dome missile defense system, three academics argued in a February 2025…